Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline...
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:24PM
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"No, the UK doesn't have PR, but it's a different system to the US."
Nice attempt to shift the goalposts. Not going to work.
Stability isn't the only goal, but it's an important one.
"Still, I like you completely sidestepped the question of how 'stability' matches up with having a civil war that was one of the bloodiest in history.
Britain had a nasty civil war also.
"You're not actually interested in finding the best form of government; "
No, because I don't believe that there is a "best" form of government. Attempting to immanentize the eschaton usually (always) winds up with a few million people dead.
I'm interested in avoiding forms of government that are demonstrably bad, based on past performance.
Nice attempt to shift the goalposts. Not going to work.
Stability isn't the only goal, but it's an important one.
"Still, I like you completely sidestepped the question of how 'stability' matches up with having a civil war that was one of the bloodiest in history.
Britain had a nasty civil war also.
"You're not actually interested in finding the best form of government; "
No, because I don't believe that there is a "best" form of government. Attempting to immanentize the eschaton usually (always) winds up with a few million people dead.
I'm interested in avoiding forms of government that are demonstrably bad, based on past performance.